Lance Henriksen is an American actor and potter [1]. He was born May 5, 1940 in New York City.

Henriksen first appeared in the film It Ain't Easy in 1972, and made his first major appearance in Dog Day Afternoon a few year later. Later films would make him much better known as an actor, especially his role in as the android Bishop in Aliens (a character he would go on to play in the third film in the series). He later played Charles Bishop Weyland, the man Bishop's appearance was based on, in Alien vs. Predator.

In 1996, Henriksen starred in the popular TV series Millennium, produced by the creators of The X-Files. He played Frank Black, a former FBI agent who can see into the minds of murderers. The series was cancelled in 1999.

Filmography

• It Ain't Easy (1972)
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• (1978)
• The Right Stuff (1983)
• The Terminator (1984)
• Savage Dawn (1985)
• Aliens (1986)
• Pumpkinhead (1989)
• (1991)
• Alien³ (1992)
• Super Mario Bros. (1993)
• Man's Best Friend (1993)
• The Quick and the Dead (1995)
• Millennium (1996)
• Tarzan (1999)
• Scream 3 (2000)
• Alien vs. Predator (2004)

See also

• List of male movie actors

External links

• IMDb entry for Lance Henriksen
• All Movie Guide entry for Lance Henriksen